But Sir John would not be satisfied--the carriage should be sent for them and they must come.

Lady Middleton too, though she did not press their mother, pressed them.

Mrs.Jennings and Mrs.
Palmer joined their entreaties, all seemed equally anxious to avoid a family party; and the young ladies were obliged to yield.
"Why should they ask us ?" said Marianne, as soon as they were gone.
"The rent of this cottage is said to be low; but we have it on very hard terms, if we are to dine at the park whenever any one is staying either with them, or with us." "They mean no less to be civil and kind to us now," said Elinor, "by these frequent invitations, than by those which we received from them a few weeks ago.

The alteration is not in them, if their parties are grown tedious and dull.

We must look for the change elsewhere.".